Sujet

Virgil Suspended in a Basket, copy, 1541/1600. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Virgil Suspended in a Basket, copy, 1541/1600. According to medieval legend, the Roman poet Virgil fell in love with the emperor's daughter. One night she promised to raise him to her bedroom in a basket but left him dangling halfway to be mocked by passersby the following day.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22B23_020

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

18.1Mo (1.4Mo) / 25.4cm x 17.9cm / 3000 x 2113 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany unusual Italy building people male job man men architecture German arts country Rome art pointing guy occupation basket color funny Roman location century gallery gesturing profession print literature concept embarrassment rotunda B&W embarrassed hand gesture humiliating humiliation MONOCHROME embarrassing writer engraved engraving art gallery mocking hand Gestures Colour author humiliated black & white black and white B W poet white and black 16th century sixteenth century Virgil engraving Unknown Art Institute of Chicago art centre Publius Vergil Publius Vergilius Maro Vergilio Vergilius Maro Heritage Art Georg Pencz Gregori Peins Pencz Georg Peins Gregori Art Institute Chicago Prints and Drawings Engraving in black on ivory laid paper